Study plan Bachelor's Degree in Classics

Basic skills

• Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
• Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
• Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
• Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
• Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Specific skills

• Applying the acquired grammar knowledge to the analysis and comprehension of Greek and Latin texts.
• Obtaining information from the study of written Greek and Latin sources, that allow to access several aspects of the realia (sociocultural reality of the ancient world).
• Interpreting written Greek and Latin texts both in prose and verse, applying the philological method.
• Relating linguistic facts of the Indo-European languages, classical languages, and romance languages.
• Students must be capable of explaining a literary text, applying their literary, metrical and stylistic knowledge.
• Students must be capable of explaining a literary text, applying their literary, metrical and stylistic knowledge.
• Identifying the classical literary fact and its transmission.
• Identifying and assessing the main historical, socio-political, scientific, literary and cultural landmarks of the Greco-Roman world.
• Summarising the current debate about the place of the classic Western tradition.
• Summarising the current debate about the place of the classic Western tradition.
• Summarising the main arguments of the epistemological and methodological debates in classic studies and the main research techniques.
• Students must demonstrate they know the evolution of the artistic imagery of the antiquity.
• Interpreting a work of art in the context in which it was developed and relating it with other forms of cultural expression.
• Identifying the main epistemological problems related to the nature and structure of narration as a type and genre of texts.
• Applying the fundamental theoretical concepts to the comprehension of the narrative, poetic and dramatic texts from a gender perspective.
• Interpreting the thematic and symbolic content of the narrative, poetic and dramatic texts according to the textual and pragmatic strategies, following the main methodologies of analysis.
• Commenting on literary texts, applying the acquired tools and taking into account the historical and sociocultural context.
• Relating the methods and results of the literary analysis to the literature as a system and the social sciences, and being capable of interpreting the interlocking of literary texts with other aspects of the human (individual and collective) activity.
• Analysing the formal, thematic, cultural and historical characteristics of the works of literary creation and reflection on literature of different languages and countries.
• Applying different analytical tools to several types of literary works.
• Demonstrating they know the basic theoretical foundations of the main methods and currents of literature and criticism.
• Summarising the basic theoretical foundations of the reflection on the literary fact in its various forms since ancient times.
• Interpreting and assessing literary texts and explaining the results of the process.
• Relating literary works from different countries, languages, periods and authors according to genres, topics, modalities and forms.
• Identifying the specific concepts and methods of each of the fields of comparatism.
• Understanding the biological, cognitive, and cultural foundations of human language and the main contemporary grammatical structures.
• Recognising and using reasonably the principles, methods and results of the structural analysis of languages, foundations of the linguistic theory and approaches of the study of language and communication as a complex, emerging and dynamic phenomenon.
• Relating the methods and results of linguistics with those from other sciences and currents of though and interpreting the overlapping of language with other aspects of the human activity.
• Identifying the linguistic types behind the linguistic diversity and establishing generalisations and universal principles.
• Analysing the lexical, phonetic, phonological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of natural languages.
• Applying the various analytical tools to different types of linguistic data.
• Identifying the various means and tools of the new technologies in order to do an automatic treatment of natural language.